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...receptacle underneath. giltsharp.com Strip Show Love fresh corn, but hate having a butter-covered face and a smile full of niblets? Kuhn Rikon's Corn Zipper, which resembles a happy metallic stingray, allows you to strip kernels from raw or cooked ears without chopping off a finger. Holding the gadget in one hand, simply rub it down the ear and - voilà! - corn off the cob. kuhnrikon.com Have s'more Campfire lovers can swap their whittled marshmallow sticks for Hammacher Schlemmer's Marshmallow Rotisserie. This rotating trident cooks the s'mores staples evenly. The handle is heat-resistant...
...Photoshop is not a gadget, but it?s been a trusted friend to gadget lovers longer than the digital camera has been a consumer reality. (My first copy came bundled with a scanner over a decade ago.) When the cheaper Photoshop Elements hit the market about five years ago, I was relieved: all of the really complicated stuff was gone, leaving the more intuitive tools I use to clean up - or totally mangle - a photo. Photoshop Elements 5.0 has new editing features, but I won?t dwell on them, except to say that the program is still tops. What Photoshop...
...Movie Players APPLE AMAZON NETFLIX WHAT'S ONLINE Besides offering movie downloads for $10 to $15, at near DVD quality, Apple is developing a gadget to wirelessly stream films from your Mac or PC to your TV. The Web's most popular store lets visitors rent or buy TV shows and movies. Amazon's "Unbox" offers thousands of films and TV episodes from multiple studios. Come January, the company plans to start a download service that will include titles from its vast mail-order library of 65,000 movies. No word yet on pricing. WHAT'S COOL It's easy...
...when the U.S. Army wanted to design a better vehicle for Iraqi-style urban warfare, its Tank-automotive and Armaments Command's National Automotive Center (NAC) contracted several companies - including Ford Motor Co. and Integrated Concepts and Research Corp. (ICRC) - to develop a gadget-laden, all-terrain vehicle in the style of the ever-equipped James Bond. "The truck's design team drew inspiration from 007 movies," NAC spokesperson for the Army's National Automotive Center, Germane Fuller told TechWeb...
...Gadget reviewers like me may love a challenge, but we like it even better when products work as billed. I tested an iControl system that included a wireless camera, which I easily positioned and programmed to snap pictures of anyone walking through my front door. I coupled a motion sensor with a lamp controller, so that the light went on whenever someone walked by. The coolest part was that I could also command the lights and camera directly from the Web page. I did not test the thermostat, but like the other devices, it can be controlled remotely...